How Reliable are Hard Drives, SSDs, and Online Storage?

 

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We come to depend on our electronics as we do genealogical research and preserve our family history. In this presentation, I ask and answer a series of questions:

• How reliable are hard drives, SSDs, and Online storage?
• What is a backup?
• Which is better, a flash drive, a hard drive, or an internet backup?
• How many important photos do you have on your smartphone?
• When was the last time you backed up your smartphone?
• How many times have you lost or broken your smartphone?
• When was the last time you checked to see your computer’s operating system?
• When did you last update your computer’s operating system?
• How old is your computer?
• When did you last update your smartphone?
• Where do you store your data?
• What would happen if your computer failed today?
• What would happen if you lost your smartphone?

Backing up your computer and other devices is a simple way to avoid catastrophic loss. Think about it.